Instructor: <name>
Office: <location>
Office phone: <number only if you have an actual office>
Office hours: <days, times, and location>
Tutorial center hours: <days, times, and location>
Tutorial center phone: 323-343-5374
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Final Exam: <date, time, location>
Prerequisites: Math 209
Textbook: <author and title>
Topical outline: Ordinary differential equations with concentration on methods of finding solutions; applications in science and engineering.
Student learning outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
 Use symbolic methods to find general and particular solutions of separable differential equations and first order linear differential equations.
 Construct direction fields and phase lines, and use them, along with the existenceuniqueness theorem, to perform qualitative analysis of first order autonomous differential equations.
 Find explicit general and particular solutions of second order (and possibly higher order), linear, homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients.
 Use the superposition principle and the method of undetermined coefficients, (or instead, the method of variation of parameters) to find general and particular solutions of second (and possibly higher) order linear, nonhomogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients.
 Use first and second order techniques to analyze classical applications (such as velocity-acceleration models, population models, mixing models; mechanical vibrations, electrical circuits, etc.).

 Use differential operators to solve first order linear homogeneous systems with constant coefficients
 Use Laplace transforms to solve first and second order initial value problems.
 Use power series to construct the approximate solution of a simple nonlinear differential equation near an ordinary point.
Grading system: <instructor’s grading system>
Date and time of final exam: <provide this information>
ADA statement: Reasonable accommodation will be provided to any student who is registered with the Office of Students with Disabilities and requests needed accommodation.
Academic honesty statement: Students are expected to do their own work. Copying the work of others, cheating on exams, and similar violations will be reported to the
University Discipline Officer, who has the authority to take disciplinary actions against students who violate the standards of academic honesty.
Student responsibilities: Students are responsible for being aware of all announcements that are made in class, such as changes in exam dates, due dates of homework and papers, and cancellation of class due to instructor’s absence. Students are responsible for announcements made on days that they are absent.
Students must check their CSULA email account regularly for information from the instructor and the Department. Failure to do so may result in missed deadlines or other consequences that might adversely affect students. Note that you can forward this email account to any other account of your choosing.